Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Kings 23:5
Priests — Heb. the Chemarim; the highest rank of priests, employed in the highest work, which was to burn incense.
Priests — Heb. the Chemarim; the highest rank of priests, employed in the highest work, which was to burn incense.
Verse 2 Kings 23:5. _THE IDOLATROUS PRIESTS_] הכמרים _hakkemarim_. Who these were is not well known. The _Chaldee, Syriac_, and _Arabic_, call them the _priests_ simply, _which the kings of Judah had...
A parenthesis giving the earlier reforms of Josiah. 2 Kings 23:4 THE PRIESTS OF THE SECOND ORDER - This is a new expression; and probably refers to the ordinary priests, called here “priests of the s...
2. THE RESULTS OF THE REVIVAL AND THE DEATH OF JOSIAH CHAPTER 23:1-30 _ 1. The People hear the law (2 Kings 23:1; 2 Chronicles 34)_ 2. Josiah makes a covenant (2 Kings 23:3) 3. The great reformati...
2 KINGS 23:3. BY THE PILLAR. COVENANT: for the word pillar see 2 Kings 11:14 and 1 Kings 7:21. In the latter passage it is used for the two great brazen pillars set up by Solomon before the porch of t...
IDOLATROUS PRIESTS. black-robed; not _kohen,_ as appointed by God, but _kemarlm,_ as appointed by man. Compare Hosea 10:5; Zephaniah 1:4. PLANETS. stations: i.e. the twelve signs of the Zodiac. Hebrew...
THE IDOLATROUS PRIESTS— In the Hebrew כמרים _kemarim._ It is plain from this place, that their particular business was to _burn incense._ Hence the faithful Jews seem to call them כמרים in contempt, a...
F. THE REFORMATION INTENSIFIED 23:4-23 The author deals with the reformation launched by Josiah geographically rather than chronologically. He discusses (1) the cleansing of the Temple (2 Kings 23:4-7...
_AND HE PUT DOWN THE IDOLATROUS PRIESTS, WHOM THE KINGS OF JUDAH HAD ORDAINED TO BURN INCENSE IN THE HIGH PLACES IN THE CITIES OF JUDAH, AND IN THE PLACES ROUND ABOUT JERUSALEM; THEM ALSO THAT BURNED...
23:5 priests, (c-6) Heb. _ chemarim_ , see Hosea 10:5 ; Zephaniah 1:4 . the only occurrences. constellations, (d-48) Or 'planets.'...
RELIGIOUS REFORM. JOSIAH'S DEATH 2. The prophets] Jeremiah, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah lived about this time. READ IN THEIR EARS] cp. the similar proceeding related in Nehemiah 8:4.;...
THE PLANETS] or, 'the signs of the zodiac' The word is said to mean 'mansions,' the stars being the abodes of gods....
THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 23 THE *COVENANT WITH THE *LORD V1 The king called together all the leaders of *Judah and Jerusalem. V2 He went to th...
HE PUT DOWN. — Syriac and Arabic, _he slew_. THE IDOLATROUS PRIESTS. — The _kěmârîm_, or _black-robed_ priests (Hosea 10:5, of the priests of the calf-worship at Beth-el). Only occurring besides in Ze...
וְ הִשְׁבִּ֣ית אֶת ־הַ כְּמָרִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֤ר נָֽ
JOSIAH'S REFORMATION 2 Kings 22:8; 2 Kings 23:1 "And the works of Josias were upright before his Lord with a heart full of godliness." - #/RAPC 1Es 1:23 "From Zion shall go forth the Law, and the...
JOSIAH B.C. 639-608 2 Kings 22:1; 2 Kings 23:1 Jos., "Ant.," X 4:1. "In outline dim and vast Their fearful shadows cast The giant forms of Empires, on their way To ruin: one by one They tower,...
DESTROYING INDUCEMENTS TO EVIL 2 Kings 23:5 Encouraged by the prophets Zephaniah, Urijah, and perhaps Jeremiah, Josiah set himself to the work of thorough reform, in which he endeavored to carry his...
In this chapter we have a graphic account of the reformation following the discovery of the book of the Law. It was carried out by the splendid enthusiasm and energy of Josiah, and it is interesting t...
And he put down the (f) idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burn...
Soothsayers. Protestants, "the idolatrous priests." Grotius thinks that camilli, or "ministers of the gods," (Serv.[Servius?] and Varro. vi.) may be derived from the Hebrew hacemarim, "the black-veste...
When the king had finished reading the words of God's holy law, he proceeded with an holy zeal to bear testimony to God's truth, in the destruction of all that God's holy law had forbidden. And what a...
Well, then, in the next portion of our book (2 Kings 21:1-26) we see how truly a pious father may be followed by an impious son. Manasseh, young as he was, did not only begin to reign, but "did that w...
_A ROYAL ICONOCLAST_ ‘He put down the idolatrous priests.’ 2 Kings 23:5 I. WHAT DESERVES TO BE BORNE IN MIND IS THIS: IF MILD MEASURES WOULD NOT HAVE AVAILED TO ACCOMPLISH THE DESIRED OBJECT OF ROO...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22 AND 23. Observe what grace raised up Hezekiah and Josiah, both of whom were born of fathers given up to idolatry, and followed by sons who were equally aba...
AND HE PUT DOWN THE IDOLATROUS PRIESTS,.... The Cemarim, so called, because they wore black clothes, as Kimchi and others, whereas the priests of the Lord were clothed in white linen, Zephaniah 1:4....
And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned i...
_He put down the idolatrous priests_ כמרים, _chemarim._ Their particular business, as appears from this place, was to burn incense. Hence it is thought by some, that the faithful Jews gave them this n...
1 Iosiah causeth the booke to bee read in a solemne assembly. 3 He reneweth the Couenant of the LORD. 4 He destroyeth idolatry. 15 He burnt dead mens bones vpon the altar of Bethel, as was foreprop...
THE COVENANT RENEWED...
And be put down the idolatrous priests, he put a stop to their pernicious activities, WHOM THE KINGS OF JUDAH HAD ORDAINED TO BURN INCENSE IN THE HIGH PLACES IN THE CITIES OF JUDAH, for to that extent...
JOSIAH'S COVENANT AND JUDGMENT OF IDOLATRY (vv.1-20) Being king in Judah and therefore the representative of all the people, Josiah realised his responsibility of involving them all in hearing the W...
PUT DOWN: _ Heb._ caused to cease. _Heb._ chemarim PLANETS: Or, twelve signs or constellations...
4-14 What abundance of wickedness in Judah and Jerusalem! One would not have believed it possible, that in Judah, where God was known, in Israel, where his name was great, in Salem, in Zion, where hi...
THE IDOLATROUS PRIESTS, Heb. _the chemarim_; which were ministers of idols, HOSEA 10:5, distinct from the priests, ZEPHANIAH 1:4. Possibly they were the highest rank of priests, because they are here...
2 Kings 23:5 removed H7673 (H8689) priests H3649 kings H4428 Judah H3063 ordained H5414 (H8804) incense H6999 ...
DETAILS OF JOSIAH'S REFORMS WHICH TOOK PLACE THROUGHOUT HIS REIGN OVER MANY YEARS (2 KINGS 23:5). What is now described would have commenced well before Josiah's eighteenth year as the Temple was puri...
THE READING OF THE LAW AND THE MAKING OF THE COVENANT (2 KINGS 23:1). 2 Kings 23:1 ‘And the king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.' Deeply moved by the words o...
CONTENTS: Law read to the people. The king's covenant and reformations. CHARACTERS: God, Josiah, Hilkiah. Pharaoh-neche, Jehoahaz, Jehoikim, Eliakim. CONCLUSION: We should put ourselves heartily int...
2 Kings 23:29. _He slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him;_ as in 2 Kings 14:8. It would seem from this phrase that the two kings were engaged in single combat. This was an error for which Josiah f...
_And the King sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem._ GOOD AIMS AND BAD METHODS The verses I have selected record and illustrate good alms and bad methods. I. Go...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 23:4 The eastern slopes of the KIDRON Valley had been associated with idolatry since the time of Solomon (1 Kings 11:7). It was a convenient
THE DESTRUCTION OF IDOLATRY BY JOSIAH CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 23:1. THE KING SENT AND GATHERED ALL THE ELDERS OF JUDAH—Not content to hide from coming ill under God’s promise of imm...
EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 23:1 JOSIAH'S RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT. HIS REFORMS AND DEATH. REIGN OF JEHOAHAZ. ACCESSION OF JEHO
And the king stood by the pillar, and he made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and the testimonies and the statutes with their heart and with their soul...
2 Kings 21:3; 2 Kings 21:4; Hosea 10:5; Jeremiah 44:17; Jeremiah 8:1;